An Indian origin doctor in Britain was pelted with stones and verbally abused by a gang of youths in a racially motivated attack following the London bombings.

Yashen Maharaj, 28, who was attacked on July 23, had worked as part of Medway National Health Service Trust's standby team to treat victims of the July 7 London bombings.

"The doctor was verbally abused and more disturbingly had missiles, including large stones and rocks thrown at him, one of which hit the doctor on the back," a hospital spokeswoman said.

Maharaj continued to attend his duties but declined to talks to newsmen.

The spokeswoman said: "Fortunately, the doctor was not seriously injured in the incident, but was extremely shaken and dismayed."

"The racial abuse from the youths was particularly disgusting, as it was aimed at the very people who, on the day of the bombings, were on standby as part of the Trust's London Emergency Planning procedure and could potentially have been needed to treat the very same victims from the bombings," she said.

"The Trust would like to make it very clear that it will not tolerate any racial abuse on any of its staff on or off the hospital premises, particularly in the tensions following recent terrorist events in London," she said.

part of the problem with a conflict with a religion is you cant tell who is a follower of the religion. It's like looking for a communist. I think a couple of thugs in the UK just dicovered that. How much you wanna bet they were drunk and just saw some foreign looking guy.

Just wait till the economy craters....again. I'd be wary if I were of any nationality that wasn't part of a yob gang. What has happened will happen in LA and NYC.... each group that claims or desires to keep it's "ethnic roots or identity" and not assimilate into the host country will be seen as an "outsider"...and a threat.

When trouble threatens a country, those outsiders are made the scapegoat....as threats to the security of the country.

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posted on 08/12/2005 6:33:01 AM PDT
by Dick Vomer
(liberals suck......... but it depends on what your definition of the word "suck" is.)

Shouldn't you be drawing a distinction between Hindu-Sikh-Christian(Indians) "outsider" who form the richest community in the US and UK and have greatly contributed to the country's economy, and the Muslim(Pakistani-Arab) "outsiders" who become the poorest community and the biggest trouble makers anywhere they go?

It's a very unfortunate incident, and a black eye for their community. Perhaps, they should pass out program guides to the locals just like the soccer games to show them how to distinguish between the different parties involved. I know this may sound absurd, but it is a viable option. Their soccer thugs after all...

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posted on 08/12/2005 7:06:00 AM PDT
by BayouCoyote
(The 1st victim of islam is the person who practices the lie.)

Muslims keep their names from the Koran, Hindus dont. Hindus have (mostly)Sanskrit names. The Muslims never keep a Sanskrit name. For a Muslim, to keep a Hindu name instead of a Koranic name is akin to sacrilege.

In India most of the times you can easily figure out the religion or the eihnic community a person belongs to, just from the name. Most surnames in India are typical of a certain geographic region within India. And in case of Muslims, there names are almost always ......Arabic or Persian (both name and surname). And in India, only the Muslims keep Arabic names. You can always tell a Muslim from the name.

I notice that when Muslims kill white people it is termed terrorist attacks.

Go ahead and take a look at the pictures of the 9/11 victims. A lot of black, hispanic and Asian faces. Or maybe you should look at the victims of terrorism in Kashmir. Or Iraq. Or the dozens of black Africans who died in the embassy bombings in the 90's.

Terrorists don't really care what race their victims happen to be

When white people seek revenge its termed "racial" attacks.

Fine. We can call these little little jackals who attacked an innocent Indian doctor due to nothing more than the color of his skin terrorists, if you'd like.

I think if I were Hindu in the UK I would consider having my name embroidered on a baseball cap and wear it in public, along with a Union Jack patch perhaps? Anything to make sure I wasn't mistaken for a Muslim.

Perhaps a moon and star patch with the circle slash through it? No Islam.

It doesn't really matter to those yobbos what distinctions we elitist upper crust people draw, now does it. You go into their pubs with a bunch of PC rhetoric and they're liable to take you out back and rearrange your face for YOU too.

It is said that it's only the middle class that has to worry about societal convention. The rich don't give a sh!t because they can buy their way out of trouble. The poor don't give a sh!t because they've got nothing to lose. It's a beautiful thing really. Sorry about the doctor.

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posted on 08/12/2005 7:55:50 AM PDT
by johnb838
(In peace sons bury their fathers. In time of war, fathers bury their sons.)

I would recommend that all Indians wear red dots on their foreheads, so as to make it clear they are Hindus. Sikhs can wear their orange turbans but should have a sign saying "I am not a filthy Muslim" or something like that.

It may be timely to recall, that todays India, was comprised of Pakistan and Bangladesh, both of which, are now Muslin countries. Residents of all three countries are of the same descent.... Logic would seem to dictate, that some Indo-Indians, are Muslims....

The two countries, Pakistan and Bangladesh, were establisted, by Partition in 1947, following riots, between the Hindus and Muslims....

This is just one that was reported. Many many others go quietly into the night

When the yobs and bovver boys go after the wogs, they really couldn't give a shit about the wog, whatever the religion. That's not why they're pounding the crap out of some poor schmuck - they crave the "ultra violence" as a precursor to the old "in-out" - it's like an aphrodisiac to them.

Yup, being called a Paki while getting stomped on is salt on the wound.

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